Nextdoor has a rating of 2 stars from 3,043 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Nextdoor most frequently mention social media, real name and free speech. Nextdoor ranks 511th among Social Network sites.
I like the way members can select only the neighbor areas they want and then find out just what's happening in them. And if you have given up Facebook and the rest in order to stop seeing so many ads and fake news, Nextdoor is a good way to continue to communicate locally.
Information about my neighborhood is always welcome. Its good that others in the neighborhood feel the same.
I've relied on next door for a lot of our home needs be it selling garden items on marketplace, getting recommendations for home services like window washing to a lost pet. Hands down it has helped make our lives easier!
BULLIES. That's a great term for this forum. I posted about my services in its correct category as well as in general. Some lead had a conniption fit about a caregiving post in general? For real? So then they put me in "read-only" without notification nor the ability to defend my position. After reporting a problem. It took 2 months to tell me THEY did it. Not to mention they sell your info.
Was looking for a neighbor on the map on this site. Could not find them as names were different than current owners. We do have a neighborhood phone directory.
It would also be nice to have paid advertisements on the right or left sides as on Yahoo.
Nextdoor is a useful site to keep up on what's happening in the neighborhood, crime, lost and found pets, yard sales and community activities. The issues I have are the comments people write that are just mean. That's bullying & those comments should be deleted. What are we teaching our younger generation!
I've learned so much about what's going on in the neighborhood (even if sometimes it seems to be the same people posting a lot of the tine.) It's a great way to keep abreast of whats going on and sometimes learn why things are happening the way they are. I find it to be a great tool to see what is happening in my particular neighborhood.
Despite some of the rabble-rousing and pot stirring that goes on in the Nextdoor app, I think it's a great source of information and a good place to buy/sell/trade/giveaway household items, clothes, cars, etc. it's a valuable resource and a good connection to the community around me.
I've been the Lead in my community and have managed to introduce a large percentage of my neighborhood to Next Door. It has brought many of us closer together, which strengthens our community and introduces new and old residents alike. The community organizes events, sales and helps monitor security, which further strengthens us. Next Door has been a positive addition to my neighborhood.
Nextdoor has been a very positive way to connect with our neighbors and to stay current with local events.
BAD EXPERIENCES
- political groups posting or promoting their views/agendas.
- Some people get down right mean if they don't like a post comment. Just today I received a nextdoor post on a poll created by a resident - to see who dislikes the smell of people using fireplaces. Really! There will always be problem creators in communities. Suggestion for Nextdoor sight would be to keep a link included for contacting township on ordinances. This sight is being used to create problems.
- We have an unstable person living in our community that has accused us of using the Nextdoor site to harass them. That never happened. There needs to be protection against this. They even went so far as to make a police report claiming I harassed them on the Nextdoor sight. I would like to know the Nextdoor site is protecting members and would give warnings regarding the blocking and removal of persons making claims about any member that can not be proven. Defaming residents in our communities should never be allowed. Online or off.
GOOD EXPERIENCES
- neighbors reaching out for references or to share offerings of plants, advice on gardening, etc.
- being a good place to share legitimate safety concerns. Ex: solicitors visiting homes.
- keeping neighbors informed on township/community events.
- a great resource for lost pets.
Pretty great idea. I get email updates. I think it would be faster to use next door if I could read more in the email instead of it linking me to the next door app which takes more time and steps. I usually abandon the idea of reading more at that point, which is a bummer.
It's handy for what's going on in the neighborhoods, referrals etc I should not have to type one hundred Characters
I live in Atlanta Ga. In a neighborhood called Cabbagetown. Where Robert Woods stolen 78K dollars from our neighborhood association AKA CNIA-CI. When I brought this up I got flack from my neighborhood. 1 reason was they was the thief's friends and I was not. 2 I will stand up and say something when I see wrong doings. Cause of this I was ban from Nextdoor neighbor. If you with the in crowd you can say and post about anything. But if you not with the in crowd you get black balled.
Overall I enjoy Nextdoor. I like reading what's going on in my neighborhood. I also like participating in neighborhood events like charitable donations, garage sales, etc. I have sold something once on the site and that worked out well too.
I appreciate Nextdoor because it connects me with my neighbors, and in touch with what is happening in my neighborhood. It's great to see when someone posts that they are in need of something, they can count on their neighbors to offer assistance.
I find Nextdoor very useful; for services, items for sale or in search of and also alerts about activities in our area that we need to be aware of.
Answer: The negative reviews are honest reactions to being duped into sharing too much personal information (that Nextdoor now owns and will NEVER delete and will continue to sell to advertisers until your dying day) to join a site that seems friendly on the surface, but which does NOTHING to protect users. I was bullied by a convicted murderer, who is a Lead in my neighborhood--and I was banned from the site for complaining. Leads are nothing more than early adopters of the site who have been assigned power over other users so that Nextdoor does not have to police it's own site. In short: No. The negative reviews are not wrong. Heed them! I wish I had known before it was too late!
Answer: Forget about nextdoor and leads. Get a life, a real one. Don't waste your time with toxic online communities that tend to get the worst out of people. My advise is run away while you still have some dignity left.
Answer: Kay is right. That is their policy. However, don't expect them to hold to it. We have leads unfairly removing only some people's comments and Nextdoor does nothing about it. Best bet, dump nextdoor.
Answer: Neighborhood. Rocks is in development. Another 6 months.
Answer: Truth is like oil and water. As long as the scam artist have enough venture capital (other people's money) they will continue to shake the bottle leaving it a murky view obscuring the truth. Run out of cash, they'll be exposed for the incompetent boobs they are and the top dogs will clear out their bank accounts and move on to the next scam. One look at their "leading edge tech" pulled right out of the 1980's is proof enough they will die in the tar pits just like the fellow dinosaurs. Want a state of the art app? Check out https://wiggio.com or www.neighborhoodlink.com
Answer: Dallas, SiteJabber rates it at 16%. It would surely rate lower if there weren't so many fake positive reviews. Folks review Nextdoor either 1 or 5. The fives read like ads about Nextdoor's features and potential. The ones are written by real people and give accounts of how awful their experiences were.
Answer: Several other reviewers on this site have had the same thing happen to them. We have been fully banned from nextdoor (beyond just "suspension"), but they keep our profiles, and sometimes our names still appear in the neighbor registry. They refuse to remove us fully, I suppose, in an attempt to misrepresent our endorsement and participation there. It's clearly unethical, but their TOS states that they can do this, as any nd apologist will point out.
Answer: Here's a tidy answer from corporate... Hi Colleen, Thanks for getting back to me. Our Community Guidelines prohibit posting about Lead activity on the main newsfeed. If your Leads are inactivate and youre concerned about moderation in your neighborhood, you should reach out directly to Nextdoor Support. If you have any specific concerns I can help you with at this time, please let me know. Best, Amanda Nextdoor However, the minute you alert corporate to issues with leads in your community you'll find your account terminated. They are very protective of the information surrounding who really is controlling the activities on the boards. Most people in my community are under the misguided impression that corporate is in control. They don't even consider it is their neighbor who sits in judgement.
Answer: Nextdoor wants your full legal name, house number and address and your email address that they link all together. As an added bonus... They have a little map that you can click on. That way if, OMG, you offend someone the little map leads them straight to your house. Run, do not walk, away from this site. No good comes from Nextdoor.
Answer: Your name and address will be known to everyone who uses the NextDoor application and website. I don't suggest using it. I recently discovered that low income apartments in ghetto areas might be able to use the application to do crime. Car theft, asaaults, kidnapping and just about everything else under the sun.
When neighbors start talking, good things happen.